Canada will repatriate Britain’s 28-year-old ‘Jihadi Jack’ from Syrian prison camp – fears dozens of ISIS sympathizers may soon return to their homeland
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Canada will repatriate British-born Isil member ‘Jihadi Jack’ from an Islamic State detention camp in northeastern Syria.
Jack Letts, 28, had held British and Canadian citizenship, but declared himself an ‘enemy of Britain’ after fleeing his home in Oxfordshire to fight in Syria.
After being captured by Kurdish authorities in 2017, he begged to be allowed back to the UK.
The Home Office tore up his British passport in 2019, placing him under the responsibility of the Canadian government.
Canada will repatriate British-born Isil member ‘Jihadi Jack’ from an Islamic State detention camp in northeastern Syria
28-year-old Muslim convert Jack Letts had held British and Canadian citizenship but declared himself an ‘enemy of Britain’ after fleeing his home in Oxfordshire to fight in Syria
Despite being close allies, the decision to strip Letts of his British citizenship sparked anger in Ottawa.
A diplomatic source said the Canadian government was “crazed” by the decision to revoke Letts’ British citizenship because he had “very little to do with Canada.”
The move has raised fears that dozens of ISIS sympathizers could soon return to their home countries.
Most famously, Shamima Begum – one of three schoolgirls from East London who traveled to Syria to join ISIS – was stripped of her British citizenship after she was found nine months pregnant in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019.
The Londoner fled the United Kingdom in February 2015 and lived under the rule of ISIS for more than three years, where she married a Dutch jihadist.
She now lives in the al-Roj camp in northern Syria, run by the Syrian Democratic Forces, which she described as “worse than a prison” in its desperate attempt to be accepted back into Western life.
The BBC sparked outrage earlier this month and was accused of ‘giving terrorists a platform’ after it emerged that Ms Begum had landed a 10-part podcast to ‘retrace her journey’ back to Syria.
Canada said it would take back 23 of its citizens after the detainees’ relatives claimed prevention would violate their constitutional rights. The Telegraph reported.
The Canadian federal court’s decision was based on the conditions of the prison and the fact that they have not been charged or convicted.
The verdict read: ‘The conditions of the … men are even worse than those of the women and children Canada has just agreed to repatriate.
Shamima Begum also lost her British passport after she was found nine months pregnant in a Syrian refugee camp in February 2019
Sally Lane and John Letts, who is Canadian, sent £223 to their son while he was in Syria despite learning he had joined IS. They were convicted of financing terrorism. (Pictured: Sally Lane and John Letts)
After converting to Islam at the age of 16, Letts traveled to the Middle East in 2014, where he married an Iraqi woman.
“There is no evidence that any of them have been tried or convicted, let alone tried in a manner recognized or sanctioned by international law.”
After converting to Islam at the age of 16, Letts traveled to the Middle East in 2014, where he married an Iraqi woman.
He was captured and imprisoned in 2017 by forces fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) terror group.
Letts’ parents were found guilty of financing terrorism at the Old Bailey in 2019.
They were sentenced to 15 months in prison, with 12 months suspended.
Sally Lane and John Letts, who is Canadian, sent £223 to their son while he was in Syria despite learning he had joined IS.
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